Online Media Cultist

Far and away the twitter of the day from yesterday, and a welcome break from the Virginia Tech shootings:

Overheard: ‘it’s like dogster for babies’ - preppypunk

Such a statement puts you in the mind of the late 1990s, when it seemed as though not just any but every dot com dream was getting funded. FrozenBeerSticks.net, delivered fresh and cold to your door within 30 minutes, you say? Sign me UP!

To be fair, Dogster does a really nice job of creating a “dog lovers community to share pictures, stories, and information.” But such an overheard statement does make you realize that at some point the inevitable social networking start-up shakeout will happen. Nonetheless, I think that Mashable will never be hurting for stories to cover in this new “social media” age.

It’s interesting that this twitter “tweet” came at nearly the same time as Steve Rubel’s musings about an Irrational Exuberance 2.0.

And speaking of Steve Rubel’s musings – and tying things back around to Twitter – Mr. Rubel seems to have gotten himself in a little bit of professional hot water for tweeting that he throws his free print edition of PC Magazine in the trash. In an open letter to the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Steve explains his thinking process.

Irrational exuberance can all too easily be expressed, it seems, in this era of transparent and instantaneous communication!